Fire Emblem Warriors

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7.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 415 Ratings

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  1. likevin96
    Nov 26, 2017
    7
    Completion: Finished story mode on hard. Dabbled in history mode.

    Pros: - Fire Emblem and the Musou series compliment each other very well. Rather, the light RPG and strategy elements ripped from FE really bolster the core Musou gameplay by fleshing out progression and a higher sense of urgency during battle. The addition of the weapon triangle in particular makes it so that there    Completion: Finished story mode on hard. Dabbled in history mode.

    Pros:
    - Fire Emblem and the Musou series compliment each other very well. Rather, the light RPG and strategy elements ripped from FE really bolster the core Musou gameplay by fleshing out progression and a higher sense of urgency during battle. The addition of the weapon triangle in particular makes it so that there is a very real reason to switch characters.
    - The best the FE characters have ever looked. Very much looking forward to the main series Fire Emblem installment.
    - Feel just as cathartic as ever to mow down waves and waves of enemies
    - An absolute ton of content - the history mode is very, very meaty
    - Offers a choice between performance and visuals as well as Japanese and English voice acting. These options are great and should always be present.

    Cons:
    - Lazy visuals - many textures are just awful
    - Could be flashier, as most Musou games are. There is so much they could have been done with the expressive Fire Emblem personalities, but it ultimately falls flat.
    - Loot system is uninteresting due to the lack of unique weapons.
    - Awful, predictable story that is an absolute bore.
    - Soundtrack is average at best
    - Objectives never really stray too far from just killing
    - Too many clone movesets. Furthermore, so many movesets that are just not represented. It's ridiculous to me that there is not a single unmounted spear unit in the game.

    Final Word:
    Great combination of elements from both the Fire Emblem and Musou series that ultimately falls just a little bit flat due to the auxiliary elements - story, sound, and visuals.

    True Score:
    7.6    … Expand
  2. BillzHere
    Nov 7, 2017
    5
    I haven't written a review for anything in about 2 years, however after playing this game, I had to make a return.

    I am a Fire Emblem fan, and I was pretty excited for this game to hit the market. Of course, when I had actually finished the game itself (in about 7 hours or so), I was left disappointed overall, which seems to be a recurring theme with Fire Emblem titles this year.    I haven't written a review for anything in about 2 years, however after playing this game, I had to make a return.

    I am a Fire Emblem fan, and I was pretty excited for this game to hit the market. Of course, when I had actually finished the game itself (in about 7 hours or so), I was left disappointed overall, which seems to be a recurring theme with Fire Emblem titles this year.

    What cripples this game is it's complete lack of any sort of variety in its roster. This is a game franchise that has spanned over 25 years now, with so many characters to choose from, they manage to pick about 20. All of which are pretty much from the last games they released. Not only a lack of characters from this vast franchise, but they all start to feel similar after you play the game for some time (especially the pegasus knights and mage knights). Wasted potential on what could've been an extremely interesting and fun roster of characters.

    The story itself is completely uninspired. Halfway through the game I could honestly predict what was going to happen, and without fail, what I had assumed did actually happen. The game's protagonists are not too amazing (Rowan carries more of the burden here). The antagonist's are also terrible.

    Gameplay is initially fun and enjoyable, however with the lack of variety in missions and character movesets, the game then starts to become boring and repetitive. It has some ideas that are pretty nice on paper, but in execution they aren't so fantastic as one might assume.

    In my eyes, the game isn't good, nor is it bad. It's just painfully average, and a disappointment to top it all off. I'm not a big musou player, but I do find the games enjoyable from time to time. This game however falls into that void of games that have such great potential but fails to achieve such potential due to the lack of true care and direction for the franchise it is based upon. Buy this game if it's on sale, it's not worth the $60 they ask you for.    … Expand
  3. shado474
    Nov 7, 2017
    7
    A Musou game that includes interesting improvements from its predecessor, Hyrule Warriors, but also new flaws.
    I like how 4 characters can be alternatively controlled in game and how they can be told what to do to improve the sense of strategy. The game wonderfully implements Fire Emblem features like the affinity system and the class changes, which makes it feel like a true Fire Emblem    A Musou game that includes interesting improvements from its predecessor, Hyrule Warriors, but also new flaws.
    I like how 4 characters can be alternatively controlled in game and how they can be told what to do to improve the sense of strategy. The game wonderfully implements Fire Emblem features like the affinity system and the class changes, which makes it feel like a true Fire Emblem spin-off.
    On the other hand, the storyline is quite disappointing in terms of difficulty, so especially those who played other Warriors games should play on hard mode right from the start and enjoy the extra gold and XP, while feeling some (still quite little) sense of accomplishment. Hopefully the FE-emblematic "lunatic" difficulty unlocks at some point after completion. I also find the absence of larger and trickier bosses to be lacking in this game and makes the whole experience more dull than Hyrule Warriors. The voice acting is fine during the battles and story cut scenes, but becomes quickly quite annoying in the menus, especially while unlocking a bunch of crests. Similarly to Hyrule Warriors, playing in multiplayer mode (2 players on the same Switch) considerably reduces the soldier spawn rate but most annoyingly regularly reduces frame rate.

    Overall, the content seems a little thin, especially compared to the last entry in the series, but hopefully the upcoming DLC will fix that by also bringing some more challenge into the game.    … Expand
  4. Knightley
    Oct 26, 2017
    7
    Believe me when I say I was ecstatic when I heard Fire Emblem was getting its own Warriors spin off. So now that it’s finally here, did it live up to all the hype? Ehh, kind of.
    The gameplay is that classic dynasty warriors feel of mowing down thousands of troops with the occasional fight against an enemy commander, if it aint broke, don’t fix it.
    The game primarily focuses on Fire    Believe me when I say I was ecstatic when I heard Fire Emblem was getting its own Warriors spin off. So now that it’s finally here, did it live up to all the hype? Ehh, kind of.
    The gameplay is that classic dynasty warriors feel of mowing down thousands of troops with the occasional fight against an enemy commander, if it aint broke, don’t fix it.
    The game primarily focuses on Fire Emblem Awakening and Fates for its roster of characters. At first I didn’t mind this until I discovered that a majority of the characters are CLONES! So the roster of 26 characters feels more like 13. This is even worse considering there are 9 more scheduled for DLC.
    The game’s story mode is generic at best; the writers at Koei Tecmo aren’t winning any awards any time soon, and the voice acting is passable, not good, just passable. The real fun lies in the “history mode” which is just a Fire Emblemized version of adventure mode from Hyrule Warriors.
    The game boasts quite a bit of content, despite the character shortcomings, with plenty of unlockables, upgrades for characters, and weapon drops.
    There are also several forced mechanics from the Fire Emblem franchise that simply don’t do very much. The only one I found enjoyable is a pair up system during combat.
    Overall, I do enjoy the game, and continue to enjoy it. I even hope there are more Nintendo Warriors crossovers in the future, but I hope they’re done a bit better than this.    … Expand
  5. MagicMikey
    Aug 23, 2020
    7
    Personally I it's not as good as Hyrule Warriors but if you love Fire Emblem it's perfect for you
  6. MiracSpectac
    Dec 17, 2017
    6
    Fire Emblem Warriors is a generally fun title with a lot of cool little gameplay mechanics, though it's greatly held back by the Musou formula. What might otherwise be a fantastic title is just an OK one because of this unfortunate fact.
  7. Stone4D
    Dec 26, 2017
    7
    My two favourite things in video gaming are Fire Emblem and Dynasty Warriors. So as as you can probably imagine the announcement that the two series were gonna have a baby was easily the most exciting thing I've ever experienced with video games. I'm saying this up front because I may have a bias as a result.

    Now to begin, I loved Hyrule Warriors, Nintendo and Koei's last collaboration,    My two favourite things in video gaming are Fire Emblem and Dynasty Warriors. So as as you can probably imagine the announcement that the two series were gonna have a baby was easily the most exciting thing I've ever experienced with video games. I'm saying this up front because I may have a bias as a result.

    Now to begin, I loved Hyrule Warriors, Nintendo and Koei's last collaboration, but felt it was missing a little bit. Maybe it was the fact that even though I enjoy Zelda I don't have the same connection with it as I do Fire Emblem, it being one of the first games I ever played. Maybe it was just the lack of features within the gameplay, nothing to really spice it up. But Fire Emblem Warriors has none of this. There's countless things going on thanks to the addition of staple Fire Emblem mechanics such as pair-up and the weapon triangle, which I must note is FAR more important in this game then in any of the main series entries. Here it practically forces you to switch between characters and go into battles with a good mixed team, and you'll need to command your other units to really get anywhere or else you'll find yourself overwhelmed fast. If you can't tell, you actually need to use strategy instead of just mindlessly mowing down packs of troops, just like Fire Emblem! It's great, and gives the gameplay that kick in the ass it needs to be truly enjoyable for a lasting period. I've also gotta praise the visuals in this game, Fire Emblem has never looked so good. Colours pop and the characters come to life like they never could before on non-HD graphics. What's more, you're given the choice between 720p ands 60 FPS, or 1080p and 30 FPS. More games need this. Please. I've spent a decent amount of time on both modes and while both are perfectly playable, I prefer 60 FPS and the smooth animations it brings (the attack animations are half the fun after all), even though things are a little fuzzier.

    But of course, I have to talk about my complaints. Most importantly is the roster. That damn roster that causes so much controversy. As a lifelong series fan it should come as no surprise that I fall on the side of "this roster is terrible". There are 15 Fire Emblem games, but 17 of the 25 characters available (this review, like all of my reviews, is ignoring the DLC) are from two games (Awakening and Fates). That's absolutely pathetic. Of the remaining 8, 2 are originals made for the game, 3 are from another game (Shadow Dragon) , and the other two feel like they're in the game just to try and not piss us off, having zero story impact at all, not that it's a good story anyway. The bias is almost hilarious to look at, and it's a major letdown for me to see so many games and fan favorite characters left out for no good reason, especially when an uncomfortable amount of the included characters are clones of other characters.

    My other complaint of significance is one I couldn't have ever imagined saying a year ago: Everybody talks too damn much! Virtually EVERYTHING has a voice line, and generally it's the same line for that same scenario every time it comes up. I seriously have to mute my TV when buying stuff in the camp en-mass, lest I go insane from hearing "Hey, it actually worked!" or another character's equivalent countless times like there's a stuck CD playing nearby. Please everyone, stop talking outside of in-game dialog, cutscenes, and the title call (although maybe an option to disable this too).

    So overall, I enjoyed this game and consider it easily the best Warriors spinoff ever made. but my voice complaint and the roster keep it out of the 10 it would deserve otherwise. If you love Dynasty Warriors like me or are a newer Fire Emblem fan, get it because you're gonna love it. Otherwise though, I advise thinking things through or waiting for the end of DLC support to see how things shape up.    … Expand
  8. mefzeldernx
    Mar 8, 2018
    7
    La saga Dynasty Warriors vuelve a fusionarse con otra franquicia de Nintendo, Fire Emblem. Los caballeros de la serie de RPG nos brindan una nueva gran experiencia en el género del musou.
    Las mecánicas cambian para asimilar el estilo de los Fire Emblem, esto incluye gestión de ataque y muerte permanente. Lo negativo es la baja cantidad de enemigos en pantalla al mismo tiempo, Wii U era    La saga Dynasty Warriors vuelve a fusionarse con otra franquicia de Nintendo, Fire Emblem. Los caballeros de la serie de RPG nos brindan una nueva gran experiencia en el género del musou.
    Las mecánicas cambian para asimilar el estilo de los Fire Emblem, esto incluye gestión de ataque y muerte permanente. Lo negativo es la baja cantidad de enemigos en pantalla al mismo tiempo, Wii U era capaz de correr hordas mucho más grandes que "Fire Emblem Warriors" de Switch, un por menor que espero sea corregido.
    Éste es un juego que individualmente o con su Season Pass puede garantizar cientos de horas de juego, ideal para los fans de machacar botones.    … Expand
  9. destinyfan1
    Nov 5, 2017
    7
    A good warriors game but nothing more
    The graphics are good but not stunning. I found the story to be bad and was totally not interested what would come next ,but through the entire game i was just having fun slashing the living **** out of my enemies
    Multiple characters can be controlled alternatively which is a good design choice Overall the game is fun ,it has great graphics but    A good warriors game but nothing more
    The graphics are good but not stunning. I found the story to be bad and was totally not interested what would come next ,but through the entire game i was just having fun slashing the living **** out of my enemies
    Multiple characters can be controlled alternatively which is a good design choice

    Overall the game is fun ,it has great graphics but really nothing more    … Expand
  10. mrswitch2687
    Aug 6, 2019
    6
    I enjoy Warriors games. Yes, their stories may be... ludicrous at times but the hack and slash keeps me entertained- regardless of what cross over we are in. I also very much like the Fire Emblem series so I was happy but anxious when I heard this was coming. Do not get me wrong, the game is fine. However, it falls back on some of the shortfalls that most warriors games do in that hack andI enjoy Warriors games. Yes, their stories may be... ludicrous at times but the hack and slash keeps me entertained- regardless of what cross over we are in. I also very much like the Fire Emblem series so I was happy but anxious when I heard this was coming. Do not get me wrong, the game is fine. However, it falls back on some of the shortfalls that most warriors games do in that hack and slash and hack and slash is your only way.
    Good:
    Graphics
    Permadeath
    Tactical Elements add slightly more depth to game
    Decent character breadth
    Music is fair/ good
    No frame rate problems
    History mode is a surprisingly good fit
    Issues:
    A lot of the characters are very similar
    They could have been more diverse in character selection (older game characters)
    The Levelling system in the game is rather slow and can make stages seem extended when they do not really need to be.
    Sometimes despite requesting character tactics, they are ignored.
    Can drag on slightly
    Despite a few tactical inclusions, lacks any real Fire Emblem feeling bar the characters themselves

    In conclusion, as a warriors game, this is good, standard fare for the series but as a Fire Emblem game it falls short. I would still recommend this game to you if you are a fan of hack and slash but if you are only a fan of the Fire Emblem series you may end up disappointed.    … Expand
  11. mglandenberg
    May 30, 2021
    7
    Nice Game. Slash some enemies. Use your brain for tactics - but at a low level. Story is okay but too much characters. No one gets closer . Only the two main characters.
  12. Dreonas
    Feb 12, 2018
    7
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Pros:
    - It's slightly less boring than Hyrule Warriors. I think that the best feature is the positioning of the other characters.
    - The music is amazing
    - There's some replay value with the mementos and the history mode.
    - Good design for the original characters.

    Cons:
    - The main characters of each game (Marth, Robin, Xander, Ryoma) have their own moveset, while the other "non-important" units (Hinoka/Caeda, Takumi/Sakura, Leo/Elisse) are clones. Basically, they have the same moveset.
    - It's a shame that characters from the "pre -Awakening era" like Roy, Hector, Ephraim/Eirika or Ike didn't make it to the game. Congrats Marth and Lyn.
    - The plot is somehow pointless, weak and short. "My deceased mom gave me a shield with some holes while a cave was crumbling, so I'm gonna gather some random people, fill those spaces, and fight a dragon in a tree".
    - The personalities of the original characters are dull, almost clichés.    … Expand
  13. Tortor
    Oct 26, 2021
    6
    Worst story I've ever experienced often got in the way of my enjoyment of the hacking and slashing.

    I really tried to ignore the story but sometimes you're sorta forced to pay attention to make progress in the mission. I absolutely hated every single character's collective contribution to this awful, cringe story. The hacking and slashing was fun but sometimes got overwhelmed with the    Worst story I've ever experienced often got in the way of my enjoyment of the hacking and slashing.

    I really tried to ignore the story but sometimes you're sorta forced to pay attention to make progress in the mission.

    I absolutely hated every single character's collective contribution to this awful, cringe story.

    The hacking and slashing was fun but sometimes got overwhelmed with the sheer amount of characters and your responsibility to upgrade just about everyone because never know who's going to be forced to be a NPC on the map.

    I actively avoided this game because I just can't stand the voice actors and any of the cringe. I pick this up generally to get a dose of mindless hacking and slashing.    … Expand
  14. DarrionVale
    Aug 14, 2019
    7
    My personal rating for "Fire Emblem Warriors" (NS): 7/10 - Good
    Gameplay: 7
    Video: 6
    Audio: 7
    Scope: 9,5
    Balance: 7,5
    Story: 5,5
  15. Diegopolov
    Feb 22, 2019
    5
    Nunca había jugado un musou en mi vida pero decidi comenzar con este juego. Me esperaba mucho más, con el transcurso de las horas se hace tremendamente tedioso y repetitivo. Lo mejor: muchos personajes jugables y definitivamente las animaciones/fluidez del juego es muy agradable a la vista.
  16. BlackJz
    Dec 30, 2019
    6
    It gets old quickly. I don't recommend getting the DLC you need to grind a lot for lvl and that its just not fun in this game.
  17. Oldskoolberk
    Jun 13, 2020
    6
    I have fluctuated back and forth with this score in part because some parts are absolutely excellent and other parts were meh. I like the controls and the strategy behind the certain levels of play. I think the cutscenes were pretty solid as well on a graphic level.

    My two key issues are the graphic details on the game (which is very terrible at times) and the storyline is pretty thin.    I have fluctuated back and forth with this score in part because some parts are absolutely excellent and other parts were meh. I like the controls and the strategy behind the certain levels of play. I think the cutscenes were pretty solid as well on a graphic level.

    My two key issues are the graphic details on the game (which is very terrible at times) and the storyline is pretty thin. It's a bit disappointing on that end.    … Expand
  18. Epic_Gamer_07
    Apr 15, 2020
    7
    The gameplay is pretty good, the graphics are amazing, the sound is good, and the controls are good. I gave this game a 7 because it is a pretty average game, but there is not much you could really do about that in this genre of game. Also, if you enjoy Zelda more than Fire Emblem, you should probably play Hyrule Warriors instead. This game is worth its money, although I would think thatThe gameplay is pretty good, the graphics are amazing, the sound is good, and the controls are good. I gave this game a 7 because it is a pretty average game, but there is not much you could really do about that in this genre of game. Also, if you enjoy Zelda more than Fire Emblem, you should probably play Hyrule Warriors instead. This game is worth its money, although I would think that it's more of a $40.00 game instead of $60.00. Still good though.… Expand
  19. TrasteroDPablo
    May 8, 2020
    6
    5,7 Juego muy repetitivo, sino eres fan de Fire Emblem te puede llegar a aburrir. Perdieron la oportunidad de hace un espectacular videojuego

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74

Mixed or average reviews - based on 72 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 48 out of 72
  2. Mixed: 22 out of 72
  3. Negative: 2 out of 72
  1. Game World Navigator Magazine
    Mar 2, 2018
    64
    Turning Fire Emblem series into a Warriors game should’ve been an ordinary task for Omega Force’s – after all, they’ve done it time and again with other franchises, and more often than not it ended up being a fun fan-servicey game. But Fire Emblem Warriors is nothing short of a fiasco. [Issue#226, p.61]
  2. CD-Action
    Jan 10, 2018
    75
    An attempt to blend Fire Emblem with Dynasty Warriors might seem an odd idea. Where’s the common ground between a tactical RPG and an over-the-top slasher, right? It actually worked out pretty well, as the game managed to retain Fire Emblem’s atmosphere. If you’re a fan of the series and not allergic to Dynasty Warriors’ formula, give it a try. [13/2017, p.36]
  3. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Jan 2, 2018
    40
    The standard hack’n’slash will entertain, but you won´t find a deeper sense in it despite a few tactical elements. One level a day will delight you, try more and you get a stereotype. [Issue#280]
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